they do not have the supermajority. the ball is in the administration court.er six years the process continues. >> mike viqueira at the white house. thank you. a potential solution is in the works to keep the department of homeland security operating. senate is saying they are willing to vote on a clean funding bill but want a separate vote to undue the president's executive actions on administration. the current funding bill has the provisions attached. if the approved the bill faces an uncertain future in the house. >> the race for major in chicago is heading for a run off. they got the most votes, but couldn't secure the 50% necessary to avoid a run off. the chicago board of elections says turn out was low and estimate well under hast the people eligible to vote bothered to show up >>> coming um. three years after zimbabwe killed tony martin the justice department will not pursue charges. we'll look at the civil rights case and the fall out. new information on a strain crash in california injuring dozens of people. tonight place make an arrest. >>> felony c

nothing can be done but talking about the keystone xl pipeline but we did that have the two-thirds supermajority but. neil: explained why that might be beneficial even if you go down in defeat? in mecca requires those who are upstanding with the override i know that jobs are at this at stake in independence is at stake we're at the mercy of opec oil producing nations around the world but yet levels still do this because this is the base once made to do. that is hard to do business if they knew it would pass. ice this is on the hands. over here. congratulations. you're down with crestor. yes! when diet and exercise aren't enough, adding crestor lowers bad cholesterol up to 55%. crestor is not for people with liver disease or women who are nursing, pregnant, or may become pregnant. tell your doctor all medicines you take. call your doctor if you have muscle pain or weakness, feel unusually tired have loss of appetite, upper belly pain, dark urine or yellowing of skin or eyes. these could be signs of serious side effects. i'm down with crestor! make your move. ask your doctor about crestor. neil: i

if we have a supermajority, we would do things differently. at the end of the day, we have to look at what it takes to send things to the president's desk that can with stand a veto and also things that the american people want to see. we're looking to get 60-plus votes and to do that we're going to have to be very patient in our approach. and i think that we have so much pent up demand on the part of the people that voted for us, excited people at home that are calling me about a thousand times a week already to try to figure out how to prioritize, but we are worried more about foreign policy issues and worried about nuclear iran and all of those things moving at the same time and i don't yet know how they fit together and create coalitions or significant differences between the two conferences. >> so a tough issue on defense budget. north carolina a very significant presence for the military and i believe there is a hearing tomorrow at armed services looking at military pay and pensions. it has been said by some that our military has become

it was a democratic supermajority in congress that started these funding restrictions to prevent theresident from bringing these terrorists to the united states. in my opinion we should preserve guantanamo bay as a critical part in the overall war on terror. we should be sending more terrorists there. it's always good to kill a terrorist if that's the only choice, but it's even better to capture them and interrogate them to develop more intelligence so we can stop attacks against the american homeland and against american citizens and interests around the world. >> to the lawyer for sha k -- >> terrorists need no excuse to attack us here. they've shown that for decades and decades. we should be proud for the way we treated these savages and the way our soldiers conduct themselves all around the world to include the people doing the very hard work at guantanamo bay. >> senator tom cotton, thank you for your service and thank you for being here. >> thank you, megyn. >> joining me with more judge andrew napolitano. i know you are in favor of closing gitmo. >> yes. >> however, let me ask

i mean, the ones we didn't take, we didn't take california okay but jerry brown did lose supermajorities in both the assembly and the senate. we did not take minnesota, mark dayton was reelected, but we did take the house in minnesota. in new hampshire we did not take -- hasan won re-election but we took back the house in new hampshire. it's amazing what's going on if you look at the number of state representatives, nat and house, we picked -- senate and house we picked up a huge number of that as well. i thought i'd just go through some of the economics of states if that's all right. the book -- y'all got the book or something like that a, but i wanted to go through it with you. what a i tried to do, what we tried to do in this book was just put economics on a state level clearly and focused. and i hope i'm not going over all of your heads today. if you have two locations, a and b, if you raise taxes in b and you lower 'em in a producers and manufacturers and people are going to move from to. am i going way over your heads on this one? [laughter] you know, i had more fun doing this with

so now we have a denial of, depending on how it's phrase phrased even a potential supermajority? the senate saying that climate change is real. now most every serious person in public life either admits the basic facts of climate change or is on their way to et going there. -- to getting there. so that's a good thing. now the question is, what should we do? given our regional differences our ideological difnses differences and the partisan divide, what comes next? later this year or next we'll see efforts to repeal a number of important environmental rules, especially the administration's clean power plan, which will regulate carbon pollution from existing in new power plants. but that, too is highly unlikely to result in anything other than a presidential veto. so are there any areas for potential common ground? well i think we've seen real glimmers of hope and possibility during the keystone debate. several of my republican colleagues made the argument during the debate on keystone that while climate change is a real problem we must be aware of how energy costs influence econom

it's almost impossible to do without bipartisan support or supermajorities were both parties in charge at both ends of the street. so i think tax reform to me think sweeping tax reform this year, i've not had a discussion with leadership but it seems unlikely to me because of the challenges and because the president is coming in with a different perspective on the raises revenue and that's not one that i happen to support. i don't believe that -- we have a debt that we have to deal with so reducing revenues even if you were to reduce spending you've got to come up with a credible way to start retiring the debt. even if you were just spending it raises a question about how much of that would translate into a reduced tax burden. we have to spend a lot of time looking back and figure out if we have similar philosophies in both the house and the senate and the then sufficient support from the minority caucus to get it through. the other problem you have is a political one. tax reform to me is something that has to be implemented at least a year before an election. the reason for that when

we haven't had anything supermajor but we have a new crash on the peninsula.re on northbound 101. there is a crash near marsh road. but the traffic in the south bay has been very slow on 17, 85, 280 and we have the major problem with highway 9 at 35 with that freeway or those -- i wouldn't call it. that highway is closed as a tree came down with power lines. we have been talking about it all morning. i'm afraid we'll be talking about it all morning, too. chp says this will not reopen until 5:30 tomorrow evening as they have to shore up the hillside. put up new power lines, et cetera. let's take a look at some live pictures. bay bridging about a 25-minute wait before you get into san francisco. we're looking at a commute here in san francisco along northbound 101 where traffic does look good on the freeway approaching the 80 split. let's go to steve in the weather center. hello, steve. >>> there you are. >> did you hear the padres signed james shields. >> they did get him. >> four years, $40 million. >> they loaded up. >> yes. >>> we do have mostly cloudy skies

if we had a veto -- if we had a supermajority then obviously, we'd probably do things differently, perhaps. i think at the end of the day we have to take a look at not only what it takes to send legislation to the president's desk that can withstand a veto but also the policies that the american people want to see. but we're not -- we're looking to get 60-plus votes and to do that i think we're going to have to be very patient in our approach. and i think that we've got so much pent-up demand on the part of the people that voted for us a very excited base of people back home that are calling me about a thousand times a week already to try and figure out how to really prioritize things. but i think that, you know, we're early into the process now. we're worried more about foreign policy issues. we're worried about the iranian talks and a nuclear iran. we've got all those things that are all moving at the same time and i don't yet know how they kind of, how they fit together and how they will either create coalitions or significant differences between the two conferences. >> so a tough issue

>>> we've had a couple of things but they haven't been supermajor, not the kind of thing where there's lane closures. you we are getting slow traffic. the drive time from the carquinez bridge to the maze is up to 34 minutes. there is a lot of slow traffic in richmond and emmer is em-- el -- el cerrito, we deep an -- we keep an on eye 680. that's a mess from earlier crashes in pleasant hill that have been moved to the side. 680 and 242 are backed up from highway 4. you need extra time on this commute. it's 7:02. back to the desk. >> thank you, sal. >>> police in sunnyvale are investigating a shooting involving an officer from another south bay city and a suspected car burglar. janine de la vega joins us live from sunnyvale to tell us how this all unfolded. >> reporter: police had this intersection at el camino real and wolfe road closed for several hours gathering evidence that they hoped would lead them to a white mercedes sedan. >> the roads are reopen. but officers are hoping any witnesses will come forward. it started at 6:00 in the city of santa clara, where two officers were inves

to the congressional budget office, as a result, the 39 point $7 billion measure would need a supermajority of 60 votes under senate budget role, even if republicans get past the filibuster. guest: i believe the american people understand it will require dollars to secure our border. they want to see us spend the money it takes to secure it. another part of the estimate essentially says if the workers come here and may contribute to the economy, their tax dollars would be a revenue source, and there is some debate about, when you back end the cost of social security that they would receive later in their life and career, whether that is positive or not. beyond the debate, and i would not want to leave the topic without saying, you know, i am certainly a republican who believes we need immigration reform. i believe there are policies we could find common ground on. virtually everyone recognizes we need a stronger national security, our border is bad for the economy, bad for national security, and it is bad for the people caught up in a broken system. we need a work visa program that works an

having a republican majority to having these -- i used to call it we went from a majority to a supermajorityl it a super duper majority. [laughter] anyway, we had this history kind of blue to red switch. we have so many legislators that were terrified of being identified with something that said obamacare. >> is the obamacare just brand so toxic that even though you can argue it's not obamacare -- >> there's no question. and when we made the argument, we said here's what obamacare is, everything from the individual mandate, everything they did. and here's what we're saying, in a program that, again, had premiums and copays, that really was a different idea. but it was hard to get away from that. and i think some of that -- i mean, you can say, well, they should get past the politics. some of that urn fortunately is the leftover residue on passing something on a totally partisan basis. that all led people to say well, we can't really trust them. >> in your state of the state speech -- you asked if it is such a toxic brand in the went and did some of her to get there, is medicaid expansion goi

if we have a supermajority, we would do things differently.the end of the day, we have to look at what it takes to send things to the president's desk that can with stand a veto and also things that the american people want to see. we're looking to get 60-plus votes and to do that we're going to have to be very patient in our approach. and i think that we have so much pent up demand on the part of the people that voted for us excited people at home that are calling me about a thousand times a week already to try to figure out how to prioritize but we are worried more about foreign policy issues and worried about nuclear iran and all of those things moving at the same time and i don't yet know how they fit together and create coalitions or significant differences between the two conferences. >> so a tough issue on defense budget. north carolina, a very significant presence for the military and i believe there is a hearing tomorrow at armed services, looking at military pay and pensions. it has been said by some that our military has become a pe

but it doesn't seem they are going to have the supermagenta supermajorities to override it. so a possibility is that supporters have talked about is including it in another must pass bill down the road. >> you were writing in an piece in environment and energy daily about where the administration is on this. so they have moved through with the state department environmental review. that's been done. what is left to do on the administration side? >> it seems the administration has been taking years on this and now we're at the point where they are really, really apparently speeding up to finish the review. the agency, different agencies in the administration had until last week i believe to comment on the final environmental documents and to say whether they agreed or disagreed with the state department approving the pipeline. now that they have those comments in it is for the state department to issue a recommendation. and then ultimately president obama has said he'll make up his mind as to whether or not to permit keystone. some were expecting the decision within weeks. bu

according to the congressional budget office, as a result the 39 point $7 billion measure would need a supermajority60 votes under senate budget role, even if republicans get past the filibuster. guest: i believe the american people understand it will require dollars to secure our border. they want to see us spend the money it takes to secure it. another part of the estimate essentially says if the workers come here and may contribute to the economy, their tax dollars would be a revenue source, and there is some debate about, when you back end the cost of social security that they would receive later in their life and career whether that is positive or not. the on the debate, and i would not want to leave the topic without saying, you know, i am certainly a republican who believes we need immigration reform. i believe there are policies we could find common ground on. virtually everyone recognizes we need a stronger national security, our border is bad for the economy, bad for national security and it is bad for the people caught up in a broken system. we need a work visa program that works and is b

it is almost impossible to do without bipartisan support or supermajorities and both people in charge of both ends of the street. i think sweeping tax reform this year, i'm not speaking for the leadership, i've not had a discussion with them but it seems unlikely to me because of those challenges and because the president is coming at this from a very different perspective that lazes revenue -- raises revenue. and i still believe we have a debt to deal with. and if we reduce revenue, we have to come up with a way to retire the debt. so even if you reduce spending it raises a question of how much of that would reduce into a reduced tax burden. we have to spend time figuring that out and we have to find out if we have similar philosophies in the house and the senate and then the caucus to get it through. and the other problem you have is a political one. the tax reform to me is something that has to be implemented at least a year before an election. the reason for that, when we did a tax reform, we have a 6, 7 and 7.5 personal income tax in north carolina and we simplified it and brough

balance its budget, limits its broaght of -- its growth of government spending and requires a supermajority to pass a tax increase. without these measures we will not successfully deal with this problem. this is not a new idea. i served here in 1995 and again in 1997. i voted for a balanced budget amendment to balance spending and require the federal government to balance its checkbook. both times the senate came one vote short of the necessary two-thirds to pass a constitutional amendment send it to the states for ratification. one vote. one member out of 100 could have voted with us, and we would have put ourselves in a fiscal situation that would have balanced our budget, and we would not begin to have the problems of ever-increasing debt ever-increasing new taxes to cover that debt, conscription on terms of spending for national priorities like defense and health research and so forth had that happened. unfortunately it didn't. and at that time we had a nation's debt that stood at $5.36 trillion. it's 3.5% -- i mean 3.5 times that amount today f. we had had the political will to act the